Space cows. They float in space, absorbing solar energy. When they get the desired mass, they are harvested by the space bulldozer.

You of course need pusher and shover robots to protect your people from the terrible secret of space.

>>1697103
So far I DO have:

- Psionics, the I-don't-want-to-include-space-magic of science fiction.
- Teknomancy, basically a form of psionics that covers machine empathy. Naturally, most AIs aren't pleased with this and install blockers on their more important machinery, occasionally have them killed, etc.
- Alkemy, a vague science which covers chemistry, biology, genetics and cooking, among other things; adventuring Alkemists would brew potions, create bombs, and occasionally do medic work.
- Genetic engineering, in a pretty advanced state since it's created the McNuggets among other things.

I'm not particularly interested in making everything stick to hard science fiction, obviously.

>>1697103
Hottentot guys?

Shit off, my arse is a good size, my skin is pale and pasty.

The wars of the 21st century destroyed most of civilization - excepting the AIs that survived the destruction. These surviving AIs cause all sorts of trouble based on their prior national affiliation: The Washington, The Bear, Eiffel, The Red Book.

The end result? The various AIs wage what can be explained as "street war" for various components they need for continued operation. The sphere is constantly undermined by the rogue AIs, who rarely consider their actions.

Obviously different AIs would have different personalities.

>>1697122
This could work. Nobody's been outside the McSphere, but there are immense spaces which contain stars inside them which are harvested for energy. A perfect environment for the space cow!

>>1697153
Perhaps this is why nobody has been to the surface...

>>1697190
Pictures or it didn't happen.

fail

>>1697347

Grimace will come for you in the night.

>>1697366
kill yourself nigger

>>1697347
>>1697381
So, space magic and FTL communication. Still don't know if I want it, because I don't want it to overshadow the rest of the setting or stick out too much. So far the only suggestion I've got is to use something like the Warp, and since I'm not a 40kfag I don't know enough about it to know if it's the kind of thing I want.

Wormholes.

>>1697403

I was going to say acceleration gates in-system with unstable rifts being bridged and used for larger jumps.

>>1697403

Though, the various mascots of dead corporations manifesting themselves in a realm of pure emotion could be lulzy.

EXTREMELY

>Wormholes.
>I was going to say acceleration gates in-system with unstable rifts being bridged and used for larger jumps.

I like both - spaceships seem difficult in the McSphere since quite a lot of it consists of rooms and corridors of various sizes, but on second thought, small "personal" craft large enough for, say, an adventuring party wouldn't have too much trouble, and why wouldn't there be corridors to accomodate them? Wormholes are easy, just slap them in and away you go. FTL TRANSPORT can't be super common (otherwise it would be hard to explain why there is a race whose entire thing is that they make a killing with a gigantic mass transit system), but since there's already a huge gap between what the upper- and lower-classes get, it shouldn't be too much a problem.

Also, I welcome any excuse to include some kind of sci-fi Sigil.

>Though, the various mascots of dead corporations manifesting themselves in a realm of pure emotion could be lulzy.

So I checked this on Wikipedia - although I don't want to just steal 40k stuff, it's not a bad idea. Maybe McSphere has an energy realm which is mostly tapped into by the future version of the Internet for faster-than-light communication, and occasionally also used to make wormholes?

Use the Ansible system from Orson Scott Card stuff? (Dont remember the exact details. Some sort of material or atom or something that, when split in half, one piece would mimic the resonations produced by the other, allowing FTL communication, though requiring a fairly large network to be made)

>>1697713
IS DAT SUM QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT

I ran out of pictures of my robot.

I'm going to investigate some of these ideas. While I do that, I figured I'd post a couple things about some of the other races and such I've scribbled down in my ideas so far to see if it gives anyone an idea they'd like to share.

- Wynda's realms are generally cold, situated near McSphere's cooling systems and such; as mentioned in previous threads they're ruled by Wendy, an AI which started as a genetically altered human woman hooked up to machines and has evolved into a vast psionic entity. She enforces her will via Elder Brains, powerful psionic women in pools (or jars) of nutrient-rich liquid which rule cities.

- The only other particularly fleshed-out high-tech society that isn't steampunk was the Kremelin, a group of cyborgs and teknomancers (psionics with machine empathy, take machine implants well but worry most AIs a little) with a thing for spiky red armor and a penchant for solving problems with a lack of subtlety at best and over-application of brute force at worst. They believe time is circular, and the goal of intelligent life is to transcend this time loop. In the meantime they help the universe reach the Omega Point, where history starts repeating, by trying to learn all of the McSphere's secrets and then destroy it, ushering in a new chapter of history they feel has been stalled.

>>1697856
I have a desire to shop that to say "YOU ARE HUGE", but I'm using a mac right now and can't be assed to download an image manipulation program. God damn Apple, at least provide an iMSPaint with your OS!

>>1697896
Speaking of, if this is going to be a playable setting, I need weaponry. (Incidentally, I'd probably stat this up in BESM because I tend to like using it for non-fantasy games provided it's used responsibly.)

The only one I've got in mind is the Baconator, which would either be a flamethrower or a laser cannon designed to turn organic targets into tasty fried treats.

>>1697931
this cant end well....

Bump for Friend Grimace.

>>1697931

>>1698847
No

>>1697931
Bump with stuff suggested by someone quite awesome over IRC:

- Greasethrower, like a flame-thrower, but sprays the target with scalding hot grease
- Recycler Gun. It mushes anything you shove into the clip into a general approximation of a bullet shape and covers it in a sci-fi plastic sheet as hard as steel
- LA Gun, a ray gun that temporarily removes all of the target's skills, leaving them essentially only useful for fast food service (LA for Liberal Arts)
- Vacator. Er, "vacates" the target's intestines, rather like what might happen a few hours after eating in a dirty fast food place. Painful and embarassing, but not really damaging
- Icon Droids. Lethal, heavily armed, deadly and... looking exactly like your favourite fast food mascot, as well as playing their most well-known jingle. Few people can get themselves to open fire on them without an extreme act of will, having been conditioned from childhood to love them.

I'm probably going to work more on weapons like this - we've already seen laser cannons and such a thousand times over, and why not make them fit the theme? (Anyway, one of the inspirations for this had the Gravitational Beam Emitter.) Only thing that has come to mind is a gun that fires cans of soft drink at high speeds, but then I'm rather tired.

In fact, I'm probably going to bed, but I'm leaving this thread up in case someone has ideas (any at all, really).

sage

>>1699745

>>1699740
>Vacator. Er, "vacates" the target's intestines, rather like what might happen a few hours after eating in a dirty fast food place. Painful and embarassing, but not really damaging

The Bowel disruptor would like a word with you